I can't believe we are going further and further north! As the lady at the last caravan park we stayed at said, "an endless summer!" That's what it feels like as the further north we go the warmer the temperature gets. It's much easier handling such lovely warm weather compared to rain and mud.

We drove through Geraldton very easily stopping at the car spares place, good old Bunnings and Repco and then did a food shop at Coles. Nothing wrong with the car - it just needs a service shortly.

We are now in an old, historic town (by Australian standards!) - Northampton. It has a lovely feel with old stone buildings up and down the streets. Tomorrow we will go exploring on our bikes after I have made our weekly bacon and egg breakfast.

Right now we are in the only caravan park just off the main road so lots of heavy truck noise but a beautiful sunset!

Chris is an absolute whizz at getting TV for us each night. Everyone here has a great big satellite dish but not us!! The gadgets and wires we have in the caravan are amazing. Our caravan is definitely home from home. We even have "the broken hi-fi cupboard" that we have always had!!!

We'll leave for Kalbarri on Monday when everyone has gone back to school. Hopefully we'll be the first of the grey nomads to get a good spot in a caravan park next week. We stayed at Kalbarri 13 years ago and loved it. Hope it will be good as we are staying for a week.

First blog!

I have just managed to get this blog going. I hummed and haahed about writing but I think it could be fun. Quite a few people have asked how they could find out where we are. Sooooooo, if you want to know, I'd be happy for you to read about our travels.

A little while ago when I went back to uni to do some studying the lecturer commented that I didn't look like a caravanner!! When I see some caravanners I know what he means! They are either way too well organised compared to us, or they have missing front teeth and starting on the grog by 2pm!!

Mostly, our caravan is very comfortable and we have everything we need. I think I did very well packing the cutlery and plastic crockery we needed. I know I packed too many clothes but at least we can go a whole week without doing any washing.

We spent a great 4 weeks travelling around Busselton, Margaret River, Denmark, and Pinjarra where we spent the weekend at Fairbridge music festival. The music was great, as usual. We treated ourself to a Andrew Winton CD which we played on the way up to Leeman - a small fishing village, south of Geraldton - which is where we are now. We rode our bikes all over the village this afternoon - so quiet and well kept. Tomorrow we will be going down to the jetty to see the fishing boats bring in all the crayfish. Kailis Brothers is there to collect it all!

We were expecting big storms yesterday but nothing happened. I am sure that as we go north temperatures will be warming up. In a way we will both be sad as we love winters in Perth. Hopefully I'll be able to swim in places like Kalbarri, Coral Bay and Monkey Mia where we will be heading in the next few weeks.